Well That Was Weird

THE ELVES!!! They are after me! Marching by the hundreds…wait no…by the THOUSANDS they march towards me! Their tiny red hats pointing straight in the air, their smiles frozen on their faces. They are coming after me to…… Actually I have no clue why they are chasing me. I woke up completely confused.

Fans of the Hunger Games and Sci-Fi Thrillers will love the new Nano Contestant Series!

NANO CONTESTANT SERIES: Episode 1 of 12 Serialized Episodes

In 2114, Pinnacle Corporation, the world’s largest tech company, hosts the Tech Games to showcase the world’s latest technology.The contestants must battle it out in 11 brutal games to ultimately win a $100 million prize!

These digital and hybrid athletes must use everything at their disposal in order to take that prize and all of its glory in the Tech Games.

Hacking, firewalls and electronic countermeasures are all being used by each contestant while running and fighting at top speed.It’s all on the line, because nothing is being left on the table!

EPISODE 1 – Whatever It Takes

How far would you go to save your family?

Roland has vowed to save his father’s life and get him set free – no matter what it takes.Entering the brutal Tech Games as a contestant gives Roland the perfect cover to get close to the Pinnacle Corporation and try to uncover evidence that would free his father.

But first, he must qualify by demonstrating a new, state of the art technology – implanted in his own body.With the Tech Games deadline closing fast, he must risk his own life with untested nanotech, or he will lose his chance to save his father’s life forever.

Ben Dejooli is a Navajo cop who can’t escape his past. Six years ago his little sister Ana vanished without a trace. His best friend saw what happened, but he refuses to speak of what he knows, and so was banished from the Navajo tribe. That was the day the crows started following Ben.

Caroline Adams is a nurse with a special talent: she sees things others can’t see. She knows that Ben is more than he seems, and that the crows are trying to tell him something.

What the crows know will shed new light on the mystery of Ana’s disappearance, and throw Ben and Caroline into a race against time to find out what happened before they end up vanishing just like she did.

Henry Wood is suffering greatly from a festive night of saying goodbye to 1954.His world is one of black and white, right and wrong, but his life is about to change and there will forever be shades of grey.An average detective, with a passion for the Brooklyn Dodgers, Henry is about to be hired by a beautiful woman, to find her father and his journal.It seems simple enough, but when a second woman appears, wanting his services, to find the same journal, he suspects he might be in over his head.He’s right.They are the least of his problems.The local mafia boss, Tommy ‘The Knife’, wants the journal too.As long as it is missing, he is vulnerable, and the other bosses smell blood in the water.

Who can Henry trust?Henry has a mysterious benefactor that he has never met, but seems to have his best interest at heart.Will Henry take the help that is offered?Does he have a choice?

Lisa Mortan’s ideal life crumbles when her rich and powerful fiancé demands she ends an unwanted pregnancy. With no job or social support, she flees to a small town in hopes of finding a good family for her unborn baby, but instead finds a man who is as broken as she is.

Eric Gaylord returns to his home town for a respite after a tragic loss, but when his spitfire mother takes on an unknown woman as a business partner, he is forced to face the nightmare he’d left behind or risk losing the one woman who could heal his heart

This is a nonfiction account.Names and identifying characteristics have been changed.

Welcome to Harrison Technical Institute, where aspiring mechanics are given a formal introduction to the world of automotive repair.It is a place peopled by a cast of unforgettable characters.The seventeen-year old car genius felled by the oldest and most powerful drug inflicted upon man.The stubborn Ecuadorian father who insists on hacking everything.The trash-talking white kid who has an amazing penchant for inserting his foot in his mouth.The giggly, disruptive black student who generously shares his stash.Young and not-so-young hormonal men who sexually harass anything that moves.Then there’s Bill, the charming teacher who tries to instill order and shape his charges into productive contributors to the profession.

Finally, there’s your tour guide, Sue Edwards, one of the students who studies this chaos from the perspective of a woman possessing a white-collar, professional background.She didn’t set out to write this memoir, but the stories were too good not to share.

Laced with (immature) humor and surprising moments of sensitivity, A Mechanic and a Gentleman unveils the automotive repair environment, and its dirty, greasy underside.It’s a tale containing observations about men and women, the working and professional classes, race, culture, sexuality, ethics, and the industry at large.Oh, yeah, there’s stuff about fixing cars, too.It’s an insider’s look into what it takes to be an automotive mechanic.You may never look at one the same way again.